KSL2009
| Best Record | Ty Palmer (11-1) | |||
| Worst Record | Jon Occhi (3-9) | |||
| Won Playoffs | Ty Palmer | |||
| Last in Playoffs | Ryan Skender | |||
| Most Points For | Ty Palmer | |||
| Most Against | Doug Hahn | |||
| Next Year | ||||
In the 2009 season, KSL stayed with MFL for one final season. KSL saw the departure of Andy McConnell and the addition of Dave Nanninga. Ryan Skender had initially joined the league but didn't touch his team at all. The 2009 season saw Three owners break out to a big lead at the beginning and a couple others fall early on.
KSL was broken into 2 conferences and 2 divisions within each conference. You played everyone in your division twice for a total of 6 games and everyone in the other division once for 4 more games. To round out the last two we had interconference games that took place. The first game saw the top owners take on each other and then the next game saw owners choose their opponents.
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Week 1-4
The PBnJ North Division saw Kevin break out to an early lead by winning 3 in a row. but lost in week 4 to Ty Palmer. Dave Nanninga went 2-2 to be 2nd in his division. Andy won his first week but lost the next 3 straight but was still 3rd in his division. Jon Occhi continued his losing streak from last season and lost his first 4 games in a row.
PBnJ South was very competitive but still had a top dog in Ty Palmer win 4 straight. Ty Boardman won 3 of 4 to be in a close second place. Dave Pate lost his first 2 but won 2 straight to finish 2-2. Brian had a rough start and was 1-3 and at the bottom of his division.
Over in the 5 Bucks Below the Belt Conference, we saw Joe Snider and Mike Smith jump to an early lead by going 3-1. Doug Hahn and Jon Oberg had a rough start by going 1-3 in the first 4 weeks of the season. The Hula division was lopsided with 2 on top and 2 on the bottom but it was only the start of the season.
The Wooters division saw Travis jump to an early lead and take 4 straight. Meanwhile, defending champion Ryan won his first 2 before losing his next 2 games which were both divisional. Aaron and Blake had a rough start, much like Jon and Doug. They started off 1-3 and were fighting to get out of last in their division.
Week 5-8
Kevin continued his winning ways and won 3 of his next 4 to finish this set at 6-2. Andy came back from the dead and after losing 4 straight, he won his next 3 to be 4-4 and get back into the playoff hunt. Dave Nanninga won 2 more in this set to also be 4-4 and be in the playoff race. Meanwhile, Jon Occhi was able to get a lucky win over Dave Pate to be 1-7 so far this season.
Ty Palmer continued his winning ways and became 8-0. At 8-0, Ty had secured his first round bye due to tiebreakers. His Next in his division was Dave Pate at 4-4. Dave continued to trade wins and was tied for 3rd in his conference. Ty Boardman had a rough patch and lost 4 straight but was still in the playoff hunt. Brian had won 2 games and moved into 3-5 and was tied with Boardman for a playoff spot.
Joe Snider continued his winning ways and won 2 more games to improve to 5-3. Mike had a rough stretch and lost 3 games but he was still second at 4-4. Doug got a few more wins in to improve to 3-5. At the bottom, Jon was unable to get a win during this set and so he fell to 1-7 and tied for last in the league.
Travis continued his winning ways and won his next 4 to improve to 8-0. This was the first time in KSL history we've had two teams go this long and be undefeated. In a distant second, we had Blake get 3 wins to improve to 4-4. Aaron got 2 big wins to improve to 3-5 and Ryan defeated Aaron in that stretch to become 3-5 as well.
Week 9-12
Kevin continued winning and won his last 4 games to finish 10-2 and be on a 6 game win streak. Andy was able to get two key wins to finish the year 6-6 and secure the third seed in the playoffs. Dave N only won one game in this stretch and finished as the 6th seed for PBnJ. Occhi was able to get two big wins against Oberg and Brian but he finished 8th in his conference and did not make the playoffs.
Ty Palmer continued his march to the perfect season and took on undefeated Travis Peterson in week 10. Ty was able to get a huge win and improve to 10-0 and 2 games away from perfection. In week 12, he took on divisional opponent Ty Boardman and in a shocking game, Ty B defeated Ty P and stopped him from being undefeated. Dave Pate lost 3 of 4 to fall to 5-7 but was still able to make the playoffs. Boardman had lost 6 in a row but was able to win his last 2 to improve to 5-7 and be the 5th seed in the playoffs. Brian had a rough season and only won 1 of his last 4 games. 1 other win would have moved him into the 6th seed.
It's not how you start the season, it is how you finish. Doug started off 1-4 but finished 6-1 to improve to 7-5 and first in his division. Snider lost 3 of his next 4 to fall to 6-6 and take the 4th seed. Mike had a rough patch and continued losing. Despite starting 3-1, Mike went on a 7 game losing streak at the end to finish 4-8 and miss the playoffs. Jon finished 2-2 with wins over Snider and Travis. Despite these wins, he still finished last in his conference.
Travis secured his division early on so his matches were for pride and despite losing to Ty Palmer and Jon Oberg, he still finished 2nd in the league. Aaron won his last 3 games to secure the 3rd seed in the playoffs. Blake was able to win 2 of his last games to also finish 6-6 as the 5th seed. Meanwhile, absentee Ryan lost 2 games to stumble into the playoffs at 5-7 as the bottom seed.
Playoffs
In the Wild Card round of the playoffs, we saw Dave Nanninga upset Andy and Dave Pate got his third win that season over Ty Boardman. In the other conference, we saw Aaron defeat Ryan and Joe defeating Blake.
For the divisional round, 6th seeded Dave Nanninga fell victim to Ty Palmer and Dave Pste lost to Kevin Smith. On the other side we had Travis beating Joe and Aaron defeating Doug for the third time in the playoffs.
In the Conference Championship, We had nearly undefeated Ty Palmer take down Kevin to become the PBnJ Conference Champion. We also had Aaron making his 4th straight conference appearance against Travis. Travis defeated Aaron to become the 5BBB Conference Champion.
In a repeat of the week 10 match, we had 10-2 Travis Peterson against 11-1 Ty Palmer. Once this week was over, Ty Palmer emerged victorious to become the 2009 KSL Champion.
| 6 | Dave Nanninga | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Dave Nanninga | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Andrew | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ty Palmer | W | ||||||||||||||||
| Peanut Butter Jelly Time | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ty Palmer | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Kevin | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Ty Boardman | L | Peanut Butter Jelly Time Championship | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Dave Pate | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Dave Pate | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Kevin | W | ||||||||||||||||
| Wild Card Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Divisional Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||
| P1 | Ty Palmer | W | ||||||||||||||||
| B1 | Travis Peterson | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Blake | L | KSL Championship | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Snider | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Snider | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Travis | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 Bucks Bellow the Belt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Travis | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Aaron | L | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Ryan | L | 5 Bucks Bellow the Belt Championship | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Aaron | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Aaron | W | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Doug | L | ||||||||||||||||
Legacy
Ty Palmer almost became the first owner in KSL history to go undefeated but Ty Boardman thwarted his attempts at being perfect. In the interconference games we saw two undefeated teams take on each other in what was one of the best games of the season. We also saw these two meet again in the finals for a round 2 match. This was the second and final season for KSL in MFL. We took many of the experiences of MFL with us to Yahoo and improved the next few seasons.
